I own three DVC properties - Animal Kingdom Lodge, Polynesian, and Beach Club. Beach Club is hands down the absolute best resort. The pool, the location of two theme parks, the Skyliner, the EPCOT back entrance, the boat access, the walkability to several resorts, and the overall ambiance.

Riviera's dedicated Bus routes are one of the best selling points that are often times overlooked.

Paul and Amy love your content! You two remind me so much of Carl and Ellie Fredricksen. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. ❤

I really like the Riviera. The food is great, location, skyliner access… just reminds me of an assisted living home. A very nice one, though. 🤷‍♀️

Amy got so serious about the mustard. 😂On my second visit ever to Disney January 2020 I wandered into the grand opening of Riviera. I fell in love. Our first visit as owners is this March.

Old Key West of course😎👍🏻

Have owned Boardwalk for 20 plus years and have stayed at all the resorts and Riviera is hands down our favorite now! We have stayed 3 times now. Last stay did a week at GF and week at Riviera and while GF is beautiful and love their new rooms, Riviera tops them. We love the elegant beauty in villas and common areas. Art work is beautiful all over. Love the smaller all in one size resort too. Has great eating places and unique merchandise too! It feels more luxurious to me than GF. Oh and the fireworks views are amazing and we love the Skyliner. All around best resort at WDW! Also really love HHI and Aulani is coming up for us. 😃

The Hilton Head staff is phenomenal. Cast members work hard to learn your name and greet you by name during your stay.

Monorail access and walking distance to the Magic Kingdom makes Bay Lake Tower my resort of choice!

Animal Kingdom and Polynesian will always get my vote!

We arent DVC yet. We stayed at the Port Orleans French Quarter and just loved everything about the resort. Super impressed by the transportation to and from the parks and Disney Springs.

I have yet to stay at any of the DVC resorts, however, as annual passholders, our new mid-day break (if we go to Hollywood Studios or Epcot) is getting on the skyliner to go to Riviera to enjoy a treat and coffee at Le Petite Cafe and relax in the lobby. It's so delightful and it just feels like home to me! I'm hoping we can get a DVC at Rivera one day. We love it!!

Riviera is our favorite DVC. Room facing the sky-liner and Epcot. Coffee bar and quick service are some of the best quality at Disney.

I totally agree! Riviera is the BEST resort! We are very happy owners.

All the resorts have positives and negatives. There are not 2 resorts that are even close to being the same.

I demand a recount! Boulder Ridge was done wrong! Next year do rank choice voting. 😉

We own at Boardwalk, but I have to say, we LOVE OKW the most. The vibe is totally us and you can’t argue with how far your points go there :)

Finally....after two years of hearing people dismiss and even downright bash Riviera, I feel vindicated LOL

We rented our first DVC stay in Jan ‘24 at Boardwalk. The hallway seemed like forever the first day or two but got shorter with repetition. Our room had been refurbished and I thought it was lovely, if also being a little sterile. The one annoyance I had was the marble (real? fake?) floors were so cold all-the-time. I’m sure in July that’s welcome but in January it was not and made the room chilly & stuffy. We didn’t invest in the refillable mugs because we don’t drink a lot of fountain drinks, but the trek out and down and over to the quick service is a little ridiculous. There’s no reason the adorable coffee shop couldn’t sell & refill those cups. Overall, I loved the vibe at Boardwalk and the ease of transportation to Epcot & Studios (the only parks we visited this trip) was a huge perk. Our next planned DVC stay will be Poly and I expect an equally good, if not better, experience.

Just FYI Joffrey’s coffee is 100% better than Starbucks, I can’t wait to go and get Joffrey’s when I am in the park, Shakin Jamaican cold brew all the way!!!

Can’t believe OKW was so low. For the point value and size it’s amazing!

i vote after-the-fact for VGF with AKL as the runner up. I loved the grand villa at Bay Lake and my kids request repeats for that resort but i love the ambience at VGF. It is true that the BWV needs an improved kids pool/play area and there isn't any 2 bedroom option with 2 queen bed 2nd bedroom. But i like BWV access to epcot and HS. VGF has everything i need: large rooms with a grand villa option, kids pool, great places to eat, and walkable to the MK Riviera is not on my list at all. I am protesting the inclusion of the resale restrictions and dont care to use the skyliner. The rooms are large, but so are the rooms in the VGF and Kidani village has large rooms too. We loved Vero beach- we combined a 4 day WDW trip with a 4 night Vero trip. but when we want a Beach only trip we go to HH because we live nearer to that beach. We cant go to the lobby at the Beach club due to a family member's shellfish allergy. The aroma fills the air from the restaurant - at all times of the day. So we wont ever stay at the Beach club

Bought OKW when free park tickets were part of every reservation. Annual maintenance fees have more than doubled which makes an annual visit cheaper by just paying for the room instead of the timeshare

We enjoyed this episode! Thanks for continuing to bring great content to the show!

I own at Poly and can't wait to see if it climbs up the list once the new tower opens and it gets 1 & 2 bedroom options. As for Riviera, I look at the points requirement and just don't stay there.

Villas at the Disneyland Hotel will certainly rise up the ranks as people get to experience it ..

I think it's possible the voting may have been influenced by the sales promotions. A lot of new DVC members purchased Riviera and Grand Floridian, and those new members were looking for guidance on the best way to use their new purchases and came across DVC Fan, and more specifically this poll. I would be more interested in a show in which the panel members shared their top 3 overall resorts and explained why, as well as sharing what resorts they have current contracts or previously held contracts for. I would also like to see the panel members discuss their favorite resort based on location (i,.e., Epcot Resort Area, Magic Kingdom Resort Area), although you might need to go beyond just the DVC resorts and include all Disney hotels, otherwise Animal Kingdom Villas wins every time.

Hilton head is the reason we bought DVC

Great discussion! Love this group !! I don't do FB, so didn't get to vote. We love VGF and also OKW. Haven't experienced the others yet, though.

Pandas face when Paul talked about “space for activities” is priceless. His face showed what many were thinking.

We rented Boardwalk in August. Non-refurb studio. Def had a weird smell. LOVED the location but the mile long walk to our room put me off. I agree that the pool needs love. Also, the no quick service in the hotel itself was a total turn off. Way too far to walk to refill the kids resort cups.

I can see where it would be really hard to choose. Depending on your activities during a particular stay, some resort locations are better than others, etc. I can't wait for our Boardwalk stay next year but I'm shocked there's no place to dine in-house...I guess they figure we can hoof it around the Boardwalk to grab something!😏

I was shocked at a lot of the results of this poll. Interesting episode. Thanks guys!

Yes!!! Riviera🎉🎉🎉🎉 One of my home resorts! Absolutely love it❤

We own at VGF, Poly, AKV and BWV. Listening to you all talk about how you were surprised VGF wasn’t 1 reminded me why it is my #1 with Poly second. Aulani is my heart though. It’s in Hawaii!!!

Our favorite and home resort came in at number 4. I understand though as we have only been able to stay there twice in the past 21 years. It is always booked up even at the 11 month window. Hoping to try out the sister resort, Yacht Club, which is where we stayed exclusively prior to buying into DVC. Things to consider.😁

We liked the creepy clown, it resonates with the Jersey shore ride Piers

Great show.😊

A group of us, mostly DVC owners stayed at BC last May and we were disappointed, the pool is overrated, but we live near the Jersey shore. And we split stayed at CC and thought that was very nice

Just because I don't have to go on a bus/boat/sky liner to go to either park, I vote for Grand Cal

A lot of these are nuts to me. For one I think Aulani is the best. I do think Animal Kingsom should be high and I love the Grand's lobby. Also Grand Cal blew me away.

18:03: I love Beach Club and the location, but I don't really love the pool so much. First, I have a non-verbal Autistic son who loves water slides. I don't like the fact that he has to EXIT the pool area to get to the water slides. Another thing that I don't like is that the Lazy River has an area that is Super deep. Because of these reasons I'd much rather go to Boardwalk. Plus to me boardwalk has a much better vibe, and cost less points to stay at.

OMG Derek, you crack me up. I just spit my coffee on my laptop! "old scary pond filled with diaper pee'......🤣 NO ONE wants to dive into that. I do agree, its not the most inviting area and my boys are grown. My thoughts on the 'refurbishments' on these resorts. Disney seems to want to completely change the look of the resort as it was. Sometimes freshening up the decor that's there (the same theme) is what is needed. You don't change out almost everything with a completely different look. We were previous owners at DVC until 2010. We had talked about repurchasing but we are just not impressed enough to buy back in. Its really unfortunate. We were Boardwalk fans and that was what we were interested in. We have nixed that idea now, its sad.

I never saw the post unfortunately

Our last stay contemporary was great room but washer and dryer never worked and they never were able to fix it(over a week stay). That was a big let down

Staying at Saratoga Springs the end of January. Hoping it does not disappoint.

I completely agree grand Californian needs a refurb. It’s the absolute best in terms of location, food quality is great, the rest of the resort is okayyy.

Our last stay at Beach Club was horrible. So, I am not surprised it was low on the list. It has gone downhill which is too bad because of the location and the pool.

I think these results would have been vastly different if people were allowed to vote for their top three.

Not totally surprised. Personally I would rank Poly higher the Grand Floridian any day of the week

Listening to the show on KZfaq is so much better than the podcast…… the volume is even and of course facial expression

Love vero

I’m not surprised about BCV. It’s so overrated.

To be fair Disneyland Hotel just opened haha I will be voting for it next year after I stay at the end of this week!

Riviera?! Shocking

I go into FB once a week and missed the survey, but I vote AK.

Derek's feedback on #1, classic 😂

I think the survey asked for WDW dvc resorts.

Time stamps?

What’s up with the scuffed audio 😅

Beach club rooms are far away, no real view.

Riv??. We bought there. And I still disagree Transportation (buses horrible). If skyliner is down you are stuck. Compared to coppercreek(which we own also) doesn’t even rank. I’m not totally against riv. It’s seems a bit uppity sometimes more of a vibe than grand Flo. Just points for what you get I would much rather go to another Dvc property.

Will there be an episode for yesterday 12/7/20203 news

Do not agree with the poll. Would rather stay anywhere other than the Riv!

The Boardwalk slide is our family's favorite, even over Storm Along Bay.